Databases
Find many reports, including those listed below but also many others, in the following databases:
- Policy CommonsThe world's largest database for public policy
- ClimateWire: The Politics and Business of Climate ChangePart of E&E. ClimateWire provides coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society. For more information, see About ClimateWire.
For help finding government publications, try the select lists below and the Government Publications research guide.
UN Reports (IPCC, IPBES, etc.)
What is an IPCC Report? 2 min podcast by Yale Climate Connections. Members of the IPCC are tasked with providing a scientific view of climate change and its impacts.
United Nations bodies related to climate change
Recent reports
Canada
UBC
- UBC - Sustainability ReportsThis resource provides a collection of UBC sustainability scholars reports.
- UBC - Sustainability PlansThis resource provides UBC plans, policies and reports related to sustainability, such as 20-year sustainability strategy, climate action plan, and zero waste action plan.
Vancouver
- Green VancouverThis site provides information on the City's initiatives to address environmental challenges and opportunities for change.
British Columbia
- BC First Nations Climate Strategy and Action Plan: 20 Urgent Calls for Climate Action (April 2022)Excerpt from the BC First Nations Climate Strategy, detailing 20 urgent calls for action.
- Climate Planning & ActionThis resources provides plans, reports and targets produced by the Government of British Columbia
- Preliminary Strategic Climate Risk Assessment ReportsThis is the first phase of an initiative to better understand climate-related risks in B.C. and help government develop appropriate measures to address those risks.
Canada
- Environment and Climate Change Canada - Acts and RegulationsEnvironment and Climate Change Canada is responsible for administering acts and regulations, and for implementing government-wide regulatory initiatives.
- Environment and Natural Resources - Action on Climate ChangeThis site provides the action plans and reports on climate change by the Government of Canada
- Natural Resources Canada - Climate Change PublicationsImpacts, adaptation, assessments, case studies, project reports, geoscience
- Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development ReportsReports to Parliament from the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (2015-present)
- Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development and the Auditor General of Canada - Lessons Learned from Canada’s Record on Climate Change (2021)This report identifies trends in Canada’s efforts to fight climate change, along with 8 lessons learned from Canadian accomplishments and mistakes.
- Toward a National Adaptation Strategy for Canada: Key insights from global peers from the IISD (2021)From the International institute for Sustainable Development (a registered charity and "think tank").
World
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
- Our Energy PolicyThis resource provides publicly available fact sheets, reports, studies, journal articles and other publications on Unities States energy topics.
- World Energy CouncilThis resource provides a collection of energy reports across the world that produced by the World Energy Council.
- "Net Zero Emissions" - International Energy AgencyThe 2021 report details the global energy industry's path to net-zero by 2050, which involves no new fossil fuel investments or developments.
- World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2021 (IEA, Oct 2021)Report on the opportunities, benefits and risks ahead at this vital moment for clean energy transitions. "The social and economic benefits of accelerating clean energy transitions are huge, and the costs of inaction are immense."